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synthetic materialism

A framework of material reality as a manifestation of the irreversible nature of linear time Posits linear time, material reality, and history as illusions or antitheses of Nietzsche's nihilism. The synthesis of Karl Marx's dialectical materialism

Synthetic materialism argues that there is no history and by extension that there is no material reality. Rather than material reality creating the illusion of a past, synthetic materialism argues that the past creates the illusion of material reality

by sandraxine December 15, 2017

synthetic material

A material that is man-made possibly in a laboratory and can't be found in nature

Nylon is a synthetic material

by Imyourpapertown October 29, 2017